John levey



NITED. l STATES PATENT Frise.

JOHN LEVEY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

TANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 537,119, dated April 9, 1895.

Application filed December 6, 1894. Serial No. 530,980. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN LEVEY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at- Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tanks,'of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tanks, particularly such as are designed to be used in connection with ice machines; and has for its object to lprovide a tank ot' such construction as that the same may be easily made and at the same ti me may be unusually strong and may be free from angular corners and sharp bends. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure lis a plan view of the tank. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2--2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is across-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Like parts are indicated by the same letter in all the views.

A is the bottom and A A two of the sides, the three pieces together constituting a piece,

U-shaped in cross-section.

B B are the side pieces which are bent downwardly and come up against and on the bottom side ot' the side edges of the bottom part A. These side pieces at the points C C are riveted to the bottom A.

D D are corner pieces, shaped as indicated, rounded and shovel-shaped at their lower ends. These parts are riveted at D D to the edges of the parts A A', and at D2 D2 to the edges of the side piece D. By this means it will be observed that there is no angular bend or angular corner in the tank. Each corner is made up of a curved metal strip, and the sides are curved at the bottom; the Whole being riveted together so as to make a continuous tank with curved corners and connections throughout,-the Whole being made of metal sheets riveted together.

I claim- In a tank the combination of a sheet of metal U-shaped in cross section to form the bottom and two sides with sheets curved and overlapping on the bottom to form the other two sides, and curved corner pieces overlapping at the sides and bottom, the whole riveted together on the meeting edges.

Signed November 30, 1894, at Chicago, Illinois.

JOHN LEVEY.'

In presence of CHARLES I. GORHAM, E. H. POWELL. 

